Underplayed Gems

Swing Your Lady (1938)

Swing Your Lady poster
Directed by
Ray Enright
Genre
musical film, romantic comedy
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 17m
Rating
4.6 of 10 from 11 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A country musical comedy from 1938. A group of performers get into lighthearted trouble with romance and music.

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What happens

Swing Your Lady is a 1938 American country musical comedy film directed by Ray Enright, starring Humphrey Bogart, Frank McHugh, and Louise Fazenda. Ronald Reagan is also in the cast in one of his early roles. Brunette singer Penny Singleton who was also cast was about to turn blonde and embark on a long, hugely successful career playing the iconic comic strip character Blondie in a series of 28 films and a popular radio show. Swing Your Lady features the first film performance by the Weaver Brothers and Elviry, a comedy troupe better known as The Arkansas Travelers during their many years in vaudeville and on the Grand Ole Opry radio show. Following this performance, the trio was picked up by Republic Pictures for Down in Arkansas, the first in what was to be a series of 11 comedy films for the studio. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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